Ryu wins the US Women’s Open

Ryu wins the US Women’s Open

South Koreans special day turned out for So Yeon Ryu. 72 holes fighting way a tie at the end of and then shutting the door on her rival, Ryu won the US Women’s Open defeating Hee Kyung Seo by three shots in a three-hole playoff Ryu became the fifth South Korean to win the Open. Yes, they take their golf seriously there and Se Ri Pak. The queen of the sport in that country. Watching the 21-year-old Ryu makes history.

“I’m proud of it,” Ryu said. “To see my hero, Se Ri Pak, out there fighting for me. It’s pretty powerful, yeah.”

Ryu played the three-hole playoff in 2-under par. Ryu hit three perfect shots to the green on the par-5 17^th. Seo drove into a bunker and had to scramble for bogey.

Ryu hit good measure, her approach on 18 to four feet for another birdie.

Darkness stopped play round the previous night; Ryu hit a 6-iron uphill, over the lake on No. 18 to six feet. She slammed the putt home to pull into a tie and ended up with two birdies.

Nobody will ever say Ryu backed into this victory, won on a 7,000-yard Broadmoor course.

A marathon for some players and a sporadic series of starts and stops for others.

It left her at 3 under instead of 4 under and gave Ryu a glimmer of hope.

“I think one mistake yesterday on the 17th green, that’s the one,” Seo said.

 “I just trusted myself and just let it go, and I made lots of birdies,” Seo said. “Supermodel of the Fairways.”